Episode 146 — Facebook’s Real Mistake

Ben and James discuss Facebook’s current crisis, and why almost everyone misunderstands what the company did wrong: the problem isn’t advertising, it was Facebook’s desire to be a platform.

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Links

• James Allworth: What the F*** Was Facebook Thinking — Medium
• Ben Thompson: The Facebook Brand — Stratechery
• Ben Thompson: Tim Cook’s Unfair and Unrealistic Privacy Speech — Stratechery
• Mark Zuckerberg’s Reckoning: ‘This Is a Major Trust Issue’ — The New York Times
• Ben Thompson: Mobile Makes Facebook Just an App; That’s Good News — Stratechery
• Nicholas Thompson: Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Wired About Facebook’s Privacy Problem — Wired
• Ben Thompson: The Voters Decide — Stratechery

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
• James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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